Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This rousing mandate opened a new destiny for John Lewis. Thus solidly backed by his own men, he was sure to make a desperate fight for industrial unionism on the floor of the Federation's Tampa convention this autumn. If he wins, John Lewis will be a figure to be reckoned with in U. S. Industry. If he loses, he is likely to pull his eight allied unions out of the A. F. of L., historically rend U. S. Labor...
...Leopold blandly confessed that they had killed Bobby Franks "for a thrill." In one of his greatest forensic efforts, Lawyer Clarence Darrow threw his clients on the mercy of the court, explained that they were psychologically corrupt, quoted from Omar Khayyam, got them off with 99-year sentences. This autumn Leopold will have completed twelve years of his term. Loeb completed his last week...
...touch of his skilled fingers. While on his way to Fairbanks he stopped off at Helena, Montana, worked on the balky lock of a vault in the Federal Reserve Bank. No locksmith west of the Mississippi had been able to open the door, which had been jarred by last autumn's earthquake. When Locksmith Goodenough left Helena the door was open. Lock-opener and repairer since 18, Everett James Goodenough, 38, is a serious-looking, bespectacled specialist with a tremendous enthusiasm for his specialty. He takes photographs of his big jobs, is never more pleased than when...
...national life will be made evident, the assembling of distinguished scholars from many countries will demonstrate the international character of scholarship and "commemorate the extension" to this continent of the ancient world" of learning"--a message we are prone to forget. For a month or more next Autumn Harvard University itself will be "on view" to the general public, affording opportunity to all who are interested to become better acquainted with our first American college, which has grown into a university that has been authoritatively rated as "pre-eminent'--a place of distinction which it is accorded not alone...
Just before sailing for Europe last autumn he got an order for six dozen sets of Politics from Manhattan's F. A. O. Schwarz (toy store), had to call upon guests to help sort thousands of colored pins on his apartment floor. Last week with Politics having advanced from the handicraft stage to the hands of Parker Brothers, Inventor Lord claimed that sales were running above 500 sets per day in stores throughout the land...